OxAndFox wrote:LightTheBeam wrote:OxAndFox wrote:
Yeah I mean I think they won't do much. Obviously explore trades, but the Kings don't have that depth of talent to send out and with the pick still up in the air it might take another season.
I can see the FO keeping Barnes/Lyles and promoting both Ellis and Queta to the main roster.
Staying the course through the draft and coming out with. On top of that I wouldn't waste the MLE just to use it. Keep flexibility this off season.
Fox/Davion/Dozier
Huerter/Monk/Ellis
Murray/Vezenkov/Miller (#24)
Barnes/Lyles/Edwards
Sabonis/Min FA?/Queta
More than likely Miller and BPA @ 37 would be in the G League. And if the Kings can sneak a player from undrafted to a 3 year deal (don't forget there are two forfeited picks this year) then it starts to fill out the talent on the team. Ideally you can upgrade the 4 at some stage.
The part I disagree with is not using the MLE just to use it. IMO they have to. Of course it should be on a decent player, but I feel like teams like the better teams are all hovering at pretty high payrolls. if you use the MLE and the player is solid, you've just gained a tradable asset/role player for nothing. We need to build the payroll as that's how we will be able to eventually get a 3rd star.
Yeah you're probably right. You just don't want another Holmes. If the Kings can't get out from his contract they might just have 2 guys sitting there for $23m.
I guess Vezenkov would come out of the MLE so there is that?
If the plan is to resign Barnes, I'm not sure it's a huge difference towards our free agency outlook even if we were to outright dump him. IIRC in order for us to get access to the MLE we have to operate as an above the cap team. That mean's using the current 24 million~ in cap space to bring back Barnes + Lyles + whoever. Then we get access to the MLE which last year was 10.5 million (believe this increases as the cap does?).
Say we want to bring back Barnes + Lyles then sign a guy like Bruce Brown Jr. The difference between dumping Holmes to create the cap space vs just giving him the MLE is minimal. And if we go the MLE route, from a fans perspective, now we've continued to build the roster cap. Just thinking in terms of the future, this then opens up a larger trade. If we wanted to pursue a guy with a Siakam level salary (30-35 million) using max draft picks next deadline, you can almost get to salary matching with Holmes + Huerter.
Moving forward we aren't going to be a cap space team. Next year we will have to pay Sabonis a max contract, I'm sure Monk is going to want a raise.
I'm not sure it's a good basketball move to dump Holmes even if we had a taker for free. It's definitely a good business move from Vivek's standpoint. Now if he's not used in a larger deal, and we can do something like Holmes + 37 for Covington, sign me up. That gives us a player who can actually contribute. But I don't think Holmes deal is really a killer for Sacramento IMO.
Now if we want to actually chase a free agent like Cam Johnson or Kuzma, throw what I said out the window. Need to dump Holmes asap to do that. I'm just not sure we can expect 1 good year to suddenly make free agents actually consider us.